Houston Ballet’s costume shop, in late November, bursts at the seams with costumes for the The Nutcracker. When I visited the week before Thanksgiving, the show’s 1,750 opulent costumes bulged from ...

The weather outside was stormy and warmish. Inside the Houston Ballet's wardroom shop, it was chilly enough to craft snowflakes. There, in a space that looks like a cross between a kitchen and a ...

After a successful $5 million capital campaign, Milwaukee Ballet is rolling out a new edition of "The Nutcracker" in December, with new costumes, new sets, more children and some new choreography. But ...

“The Nutcracker is a blessing and a curse,” says Chris Takashima. “We call it a beast.” She’s not talking casting or choreography—it’s the costuming that makes her head spin faster than a dancer doing ...

“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - This segment on The Three was paid for and sponsored by The Arts Center of Brazos Valley. You can get a sneak peek at The Nutcracker before it hits the stage. The Arts Center of ...

The holidays aren’t the holidays without a Nutcracker ballet production, and the experience promises to be even sweeter this time around. George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, opening Thursday night at ...

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Boston Ballet soloist Daniel R. Durrett has danced in a production of “The Nutcracker” every single year for the past two decades, with the exception of 2020. Like many ballet dancers, he started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First performed in the United States in 1944, “The Nutcracker” became a tradition in 1954 with ballet companies across the country ...